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Texas Senator Ted Cruz Thinks Beto O'Rourke Shouldn't Blame Dallas Officer For Shooting Botham Jean

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Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, the grown-up Eddie Munster, thinks that challenger Rep. Beto O’Rourke was wrong to rush to judgment when he criticized the shooting of Botham Jean, the 26-year-old black man who was shot dead in his own home by a Dallas police officer.

“It’s possible what happened was a horrifying and horrific misunderstanding, or it may be something else,” Cruz told Fox 26 Houston in an interview Sunday. “And that’s why we have a legal justice system, to actually learn what the facts are and learn what happened. I wish Beto O’Rourke and Democrats weren’t so quick to always blame the police officer, always attack the police officer.”
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https://www.theroot.com/texas-senator-ted-cruz-thinks-beto-orourke-shouldnt-bla-1829117198

This is what Kaepernick is talking about. To people like Ted Cruz, Black lives don't matter. Why blame the police just because the officer illegally entered a man's apartment and shot him? Obviously, we need more information. Maybe the Black man did something after the officer illegally burst into his apartment that deserved getting shot. This is just ridiculous.

The officer should have been fired, right away. She illegally entered a man's apartment and killed him. End of story.

We haven't even discussed how completely incompetent you have to be with a firearm to accidentally shoot someone in this scenario. Where was her trigger discipline?

You would think that for once, a case could be so clear and unambiguous, that Republicans would actually criticize the police. But it seems they only criticize law enforcement when they're investigating Republicans like Trump.
 
I actually don’t think politicians should voice their opinions regarding guilt/innocence on ongoing criminal investigations. But that would also mean biting their tongue when a cop is the alleged victim as well, and I doubt Cruz would abide by that.
 
Skeptic Bob said:
I actually don’t think politicians should voice their opinions regarding guilt/innocence on ongoing criminal investigations. But that would also mean biting their tongue when a cop is the alleged victim as well, and I doubt Cruz would abide by that.
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That's all changed now, innit. The President not only offers his opinion about guilt or innocence, he beaks off about judicial bias in ongoing litigation.
 
SonOfDaedalus said:
https://www.theroot.com/texas-senator-ted-cruz-thinks-beto-orourke-shouldnt-bla-1829117198

This is what Kaepernick is talking about. To people like Ted Cruz, Black lives don't matter. Why blame the police just because the officer illegally entered a man's apartment and shot him? Obviously, we need more information. Maybe the Black man did something after the officer illegally burst into his apartment that deserved getting shot. This is just ridiculous.

The officer should have been fired, right away. She illegally entered a man's apartment and killed him. End of story.

We haven't even discussed how completely incompetent you have to be with a firearm to accidentally shoot someone in this scenario. Where was her trigger discipline?

You would think that for once, a case could be so clear and unambiguous, that Republicans would actually criticize the police. But it seems they only criticize law enforcement when they're investigating Republicans like Trump.
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Don't agree there, she should have been put on administrative leave with pay until charges were filed and then placed on administrative leave without pay until the end of the trial.
 
SonOfDaedalus said:
https://www.theroot.com/texas-senator-ted-cruz-thinks-beto-orourke-shouldnt-bla-1829117198

This is what Kaepernick is talking about. To people like Ted Cruz, Black lives don't matter. Why blame the police just because the officer illegally entered a man's apartment and shot him? Obviously, we need more information. Maybe the Black man did something after the officer illegally burst into his apartment that deserved getting shot. This is just ridiculous.

The officer should have been fired, right away. She illegally entered a man's apartment and killed him. End of story.

We haven't even discussed how completely incompetent you have to be with a firearm to accidentally shoot someone in this scenario. Where was her trigger discipline?

You would think that for once, a case could be so clear and unambiguous, that Republicans would actually criticize the police. But it seems they only criticize law enforcement when they're investigating Republicans like Trump.
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It is (or at least should be) hard not to criticize someone getting shot for simply being inside their own home (apartment) and minding their own business. The fact that someone enters your home uninvited and kills you because they were lost and confused deserves to be considered a very serious criminal act (manslaughter at least) - no matter what races or occupations are involved.
 
Grand Mal said:
That's all changed now, innit. The President not only offers his opinion about guilt or innocence, he beaks off about judicial bias in ongoing litigation.
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Yep. Though while Trump is certainly worse about it than previous presidents, previous presidents crossed that line too much for my comfort as well. At the very least they should be concerned about contaminating the jury pool.
 
Skeptic Bob said:
I actually don’t think politicians should voice their opinions regarding guilt/innocence on ongoing criminal investigations. But that would also mean biting their tongue when a cop is the alleged victim as well, and I doubt Cruz would abide by that.
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Yep, Cruz is wrong on sticking his mouth into this situation, imo.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
It is (or at least should be) hard not to criticize someone getting shot for simply being inside their own home (apartment) and minding their own business. The fact that someone enters your home uninvited and kills you because they were lost and confused deserves to be considered a very serious criminal act (manslaughter at least) - no matter what races or occupations are involved.
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That's reasonable. Why didn't Ted Cruz say that? Why is his knee-jerk reaction to blindly defend the police? There is a group of people who just blindly defend the police--especially if the victim is Black. It's some kind of tribal thinking.
 
SonOfDaedalus said:
That's reasonable. Why didn't Ted Cruz say that? Why is his knee-jerk reaction to blindly defend the police? There is a group of people who just blindly defend the police--especially if the victim is Black. It's some kind of tribal thinking.
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"tribal".

LOL, yeah, I guess that's one way of phrasing it.

The idea that anyone would defend the police officer in this scenario is ridiculous.

Bottom line is that we simply do not see these kinds of incidents happening to white men in this country. We don't see unarmed white men being gunned down by the police....and politicians defending the actions of the police.........anywhere, at any time, in almost any circumstances........anywhere in this country.
 
SonOfDaedalus said:
https://www.theroot.com/texas-senator-ted-cruz-thinks-beto-orourke-shouldnt-bla-1829117198

This is what Kaepernick is talking about. To people like Ted Cruz, Black lives don't matter. Why blame the police just because the officer illegally entered a man's apartment and shot him? Obviously, we need more information. Maybe the Black man did something after the officer illegally burst into his apartment that deserved getting shot. This is just ridiculous.

The officer should have been fired, right away. She illegally entered a man's apartment and killed him. End of story.

We haven't even discussed how completely incompetent you have to be with a firearm to accidentally shoot someone in this scenario. Where was her trigger discipline?

You would think that for once, a case could be so clear and unambiguous, that Republicans would actually criticize the police. But it seems they only criticize law enforcement when they're investigating Republicans like Trump.
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Some news outlets are Reporting/speculating that they knew each other. Others are citing neighbor witnesses stating she knocked on the door as was asking to be let in. Either way she's guilty as hell!



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